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There are 628 Million MMO Players Worldwide Accounting for $14.9 Billion in Annual Revenue 2 Jul 2013 | 10:50 pm
According to a new report from GlobalCollect and NewZoo: The global games market is this year expected to reach $70.4 Billion in 2013, an increase of 6% over 2012 MMO games will account for $14.9 bi...
Mobile Game Cross-Promotions Are Almost Twice as Effective as Ad Networks for Installs 24 Jun 2013 | 10:30 pm
In a recent post on TechCrunch, Chartboost dropped some info and numbers that should be of interest to mobile game developers: Direct deals between game development studios perform better than mobile...
32 Million Desktop PCs Shipped in Q1 2013 20 May 2013 | 11:57 pm
Jon Peddie Research (JPR), announced new info on PC Add-in Board (AIB) shipments during Q1’2013. Total AIB shipments totaled 14.8 million units Nvidia continues to hold a dominant market share positi...
PC Gaming Hardware Market – $23.6 Billion in 2012 6 May 2013 | 12:03 am
Jon Peddie Research released new research on the PC Gaming segment. Here are some of the highlights: There are 54 million Performance and Enthusiast class PC gamers worldwide - Enthusiast and Performa...
Mobile/Portable Game Revenue to Approach $23 Billion in 2017 26 Apr 2013 | 11:11 am
International Data Corporation (IDC) published the Worldwide Gaming-Optimized Handheld, Smartphone, and Tablet Gaming 2013–2017 Forecast, on the current state and future direction of smartphone, table...
Bungie-Activision Agreement for Destiny (and three sequels) 23 Apr 2013 | 11:42 pm
People often ask me about contracts with publishers and some of the things you might find in them. While the Activision-Bungie contract is not typical for most independent game studios, it still is wo...
New Digital and Retail Game Revenue Data – U.S., Europe and China 1 Apr 2013 | 10:13 pm
According to NPD, 2012 digital game sales were: U.S. -$5.9 billion (40 percent of total U.S. dollars spent on games, up from 28 percent in 2010) U.K. – $1.7 billion Germany – $1.4 billion France – $1 ...
The German Client-Based MMO Market was €474 Million in 2012 20 Mar 2013 | 11:52 pm
According to SuperData: The European client-based MMO market totalled $1.3 billion in 2012 Three publishers dominate the space, generating 70% of all revenue Germany is the largest European client-bas...
DEVELOP Speaker Submissions Close on Friday, March 15th 11 Mar 2013 | 11:06 pm
Just got a note from the DEVELOP Conference and wanted to pass along the info. Speaker submissions close this Friday, March 15th. If you are interested in speaking or submitting a talk, follow this li...
According to NPD, U.S. has 37.5 Million Core Gamers 8 Mar 2013 | 02:27 am
According to NPD, and their latest report, Core Gaming 2013, within the US population ages 9 and older, almost half play video games on core gaming device. Only 14 percent, or 37.5 million people, wou...
